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Mathematiker, Physiker, Schriftsteller, Philosoph, erster deutscher Professor für Experimentalphysik, verfasste die brillantesten Aphorismen Deutschlands (Deutschland, 1742 - 1799).

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg wäre heute 281 Jahre, 9 Monate, 20 Tage oder 102.927 Tage alt.

Geboren am 01.07.1742 in Ober-Ramstadt/Darmstadt
Gestorben am 24.02.1799 in Göttingen
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• A long happiness losses by its mere length.

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• Ambition and suspicion always go together.

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• Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

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• Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

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• Every man has his moral backside, too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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• First there is a time when we believe everthing, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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• I caught sight of a haze upon his face - of that mist which arises invariably from the blissful feeling that one is superior to others.

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• I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

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• It is a golden rule that one should never judge men by their opinions, but rather by what their opinions make of them.

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• It is not difficult to say something succinctly provided one has something to say.

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• Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc. at times before they're worn out and at times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

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• Most of the time disbelief in one thing is based on blind belief in another.

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• The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

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• The feeling of health is acquired only through sickness.

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• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

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• There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

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• To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

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• We must make people obliged to us in their way, not in ours.

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